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Books like Sorrow Falls: 9 series to read next

Sorrow Falls is science fiction and first contact, set in contemporary. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Sorrow Falls is 3 books, 2015–2023.

“Three years after a spaceship landed in Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, a government operative comes to investigate and finds that Annie Collins, sixteen, might have the answers he seeks.”
from the catalogue description of The Spaceship Next Door

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Chocky
Cavor
Ormingat Trilogy
The Themis Files
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The Carls
My Teacher Is an Alien
Rama
K-PAX
Alliance-Union

ChockySeries

seriesJohn Wyndham & Mark Daniel2 books1968

Science fiction, mysterious in tone, about aliens, set in contemporary.

“The BBC produced a radio adaption by John Tydeman in 1967.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Chocky →

CavorSeries

seriesH. G. Wells & Stephen Baxter2 books1901

About space exploration, set in the moon and early 20th century.

“H. G. Wells's 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon is narrated by the businessman Bedford, who joins the reclusive scientist Cavor after Cavor invents cavorite, a gravity-blocking substance that carries the two men to the Moon.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The First Men in the Moon →

Ormingat TrilogySeries

seriesSylvia Waugh3 books2000

“For almost as long as he can remember, Tom has lived happily in Belthorp.”
from the catalogue description of Space Race

Start with Space Race →

The Themis FilesSeries

seriesSylvain Neuvel3 books2015

Tense in tone, about robots.

“Sleeping Giants and its sequels are told almost entirely through interview transcripts conducted by an unnamed, evasive interrogator, giving the series a documentary, oral-history feel unusual for first-contact SF.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Sleeping Giants →

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing / The CarlsSeries

seriesHank Green2 books2018

Adventurous in tone, about identity.

Start with An Absolutely Remarkable Thing →

My Teacher Is an AlienSeries

seriesBruce Coville4 books1989

Adventurous in tone.

“Susan Simmons can tell that her new substitute teacher is really weird.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with My Teacher Is an Alien →

RamaUniverse

universe7 books1973

Set in space and spaceship.

“Something is falling through the solar system on a hyperbolic orbit, and it is not a comet.”
from the catalogue description

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K-PAXSeries

seriesGene Brewer4 books1995

Science fiction, mysterious in tone, about aliens, set in contemporary and our world.

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Alliance-UnionUniverse

universe173 books1976

Set in far future.

“Around that spine cluster the merchanter novels of trader Families, the Faded Sun trilogy of human envoys among the martial alien Mri, and the Chanur books, narrated from the hierarchical, whiskered viewpoint of the hani.”
from the catalogue description

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Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Sorrow Falls?: Chocky — the closest match to Sorrow Falls on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Sorrow Falls?: The Spaceship Next Door. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Sorrow Falls.
How big is Sorrow Falls?: Sorrow Falls is 3 books, 2015–2023.

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